Course Synopsis: This two day course teaches the web designer how to control the appearance of their web design by separating the visual presentation from the content. This class covers basic to advanced design topics including selectors, the cascade, and inheritance. The training also covers how to build effective navigation, how to lay out pages, and how to work with typography, colors, backgrounds, and white space. Using a project-based approach, the students will through the process of creating a Web page, while learning the essentials of CSS along the way.
Who Should Attend: Web professionals who are seeking to create a more accessible and flexible page design structure using Cascading Style Sheets. This class covers CSS for type, page layout, and styling for specific mediums.
Prerequisites: Because of the amount of material we cover in class, we do require students to be comfortable using a mouse, opening and saving files, and the general operations of computers. While we will make every reasonable effort to help, students with insufficient skills may be required to observe the class lessons or do their best to keep up without slowing down the rest of the class. We highly recommend working with the application tutorial before coming to the course. In addition, students are required to be relatively well-versed in the basics of HTML and web coding as well as familiarity with web terminology.
What You Will Learn:
• Understanding CSS Terminology
• Using Class Selectors
• Using floats for Page Layout
• Setting Foreground and Background Properties
• Using External Style Sheets
• Changing Font Styles and Weights
• Understanding Margins and Adding Borders
• Styling Tables and Captions
• Styling for Specific Mediums
• Styling for Print
• Setting Global Styles
• Laying out a Navbar
Time: Class time is 9:00 a.m.- 4:00 p.m. Breaks are scheduled throughout the day and lunch is typically scheduled 12-1. Students provide their own lunch.
Locations: We have company-operated facilities in Atlanta, Chicago, Denver, San Diego and Washington DC. We also work with a network of rental facilities to offer our classes regularly across the United States and in Canada. Please double-check the location of your class with our office to make sure you get to the right location.
Related Courses: We recommend the following courses that relate to this class: Dreamweaver and CSS for Dreamweaver.Please take a look at our other course outlines.
Goals: Sterling Ledet and Associates realizes the importance of education and we take pride in being able to offer you classes that are more custom fit to your needs. Call us at (770) 414-5007 if you have any special questions or e-mail us at sales@ledet.com.
Registration: Please fill out our registration form and fax it to us at (312) 896-9094. |
